According to Jason McClure of the Legal Times (Law.Com) a focus this week of the DOJ "firings" investigation will be the hiring practices in the civil rights division. A hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has the following lineup of witnesses set for Tuesday -

Updated Witness List

Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on “Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? – Part V”

Bradley J. Schlozman Associate Counsel to the Director Executive Office for United States Attorneys Former Interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC

Panel II

Todd Graves Former U.S. Attorney Western District of Missouri Kansas City, MO

The U.S. Attorneys Office of the Central District of California issued a press release of a recent federal criminal complaint against an individual who is alleged to have "uploaded the first four episodes of this season’s "24" earlier this year before they were originally aired on the Fox television network."